Why did the son of the famous composer Tariverdiev hate music and for what he received 2 Orders of the Red Star?

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

When acquaintances asked the famous composer: “Mikael Leonovich, can't you smear your own son from Afgan?” He replied: “What can I say? Do not send my son to his death, but send the son of a cleaner? " Lieutenant Karen Tariverdiev, immediately after graduating from the Ryazan Airborne School, served in Afghanistan for two and a half years, was the chief of intelligence of a special detachment. appointment, was awarded the Order of the "Red Banner" and two orders of the "Red Star", was wounded five times. The only son of the great Soviet composer said that he was always ashamed to hide behind the back of his famous father.

Remembering his childhood, Karen Mikaelovich confessed to reporters that he always hated music and mathematics, since it was these disciplines that he additionally studied after school, when all the other boys ran outside to play. He was tormented by mathematics by his grandmother, an honored teacher, and the choice of a music school was obvious to everyone except the boy himself. Mikael Leonovich himself saved him from these torments:

(Karen Tariverdiev, from interview)

Then the son of the famous composer began to show more and more that he was not going to be a representative of the "golden youth": in his second year he dropped out of the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University and, in search of "male extreme", went to Western Siberia, on an oil exploration expedition. However, there he quickly realized that there was no need for him to earn money "for a house in the village" and chose military service for himself. When the parents found out that their son was going to Ryazan at the Higher Airborne School, the mother was horrified, tried to dissuade the only child, in front of whom all the doors were open in Moscow, but the father said:

Five years later, the young lieutenant immediately received a real baptism of fire. During two and a half years of service in Afghanistan, he made 63 exits to carry out reconnaissance missions. There were military operations, awards, and wounds in his service:

As one of the main achievements of those years, Karen Mikaelovich always called not awards, but the fact that under his command for all the years of Afgan, only one private was killed. Much later, evaluating modern films about that time, the composer's son was outraged by the multitude of crude "bloopers". For example, about Fyodor Bondarchuk's "9th company":

And he talked about his own experience:

The most serious wound of the young officer was a mine explosion. 19 fragments, one in the knee joint. Doctors took a long time deciding whether to keep the leg. The consequences for many years then made themselves felt and became the reason that Karen Tariverdiev passed away very early. Oddly enough, he always remembered service in Afghanistan as the happiest time:

If you look from the outside, then Karen Mikaelovich had “life after”, and quite successful. After the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, he served in the Starokrymskaya special forces brigade, in Germany and in the Chuchkovskaya special forces brigade. In 1991, like many other military men, he was forced to make a difficult choice for himself - whether to carry out the order of his command, and, for the only time in his entire service, he decided not to carry it out, since:

Karen Tariverdiev left the army in 1994, when the Union finally collapsed. He worked at the Center for Humanitarian Demining and Special Blasting Operations under the Russian Emergencies Ministry, however, later, due to old wounds, his legs began to fail and he had to leave for a "cabinet position." In the last years of his life, he wrote a series of stories about Afghanistan, which he himself called "very tough and bitter", they were published in the magazine "Red Banner" and "Literaturnaya gazeta".

Karen Mikaelovich passed away in August 2014 at the age of 54, and he was absolutely sure that, having become a professional military man, he had made the right choice in life:

(Karen Tariverdiev, from interview)

Apparently, for the older and younger Tariverdiyevs, youth was sometimes ardent deeds. Mikael Leonovich, for example, once got into such an unpleasant story that he even later became the prototype of the hero of the film "Station for Two".